MIT Working On Industrial-Scale Graphene Printing Press

surewouldoutlaw writes "Hot on the heels of news that research into graphene is being funded by the NSF, MIT says it is working on an industrial-size graphene printing press for synthesizing sheets as large as 1-km square. The current record is 76 cm sq. Tomas Palacios, director of the Center for Graphene Devices and Systems, said, 'The way I approach graphene is different from most other researchers in this field. Ninety-nine percent of the papers on graphene have been written by physicists, focusing on amazing and unique properties of the material. I have the point of view of an engineer. I’m interested in finding the best applications for graphene’s unique properties.'"

Re:1km^2

[tomhudson]

... because they pulled the number out of their you-know-what? The article makes the claim, but the article that it links to (http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/mit-launches-new-graphene-laboratory.php as its' source) doesn't make any such claims.

They want to produce rolls of the stuff. Sure, 1 square kilometer of material could be 1km * 1km, or 10km * 100m, or 100km * 10m, but it's more likely to be a strip 1,000km * 1m, or 10,000km * 10cm than 1km * 1km ...

Re:Got the answer

[blair1q]

that'll keep the cat entertained for an hour